Re: Help! - DNS seg faults, can't ping non-numeric IPs

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:57AM , Matt Newsome
hopped a keyboard producing:
> I've successfully installed Familiar 0.4 (stable) on my iPAQ H3660 and
> have got the Buffalo IEEE 802.11b WLAN card working to the point where
> I can browse websites wirelessly and ssh into other machines via the
> access point / IP masquerading to my net connection.

Got to get myself one of those pcmcia devices :)

> For some reason, though, the iPAQ DNS is not working correctly. I can
> ping a numeric IP fine, but if I try to ping a name (e.g. ping foo or
> ping www.yahoo.com), I get an immediate segfault.
>
> Unfortunately, it's not just ping -- the web browser dies if I try to
> visit a site for which the IP isn't in /etc/hosts, so it seems to be
> something to do with DNS lookups.
>
> I double checked the DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf and I can ping
> the numeric nameserver IPs from the iPAQ fine.
>
> I'm setting all this up for a university research lab and *need* to
> get DNS working for our research.
>
> If anyone has experienced this or has any suggestions, I'd be
> extremely grateful for any advice you can offer.

No experience, but did you also look at the /etc/nsswitch.conf?

One of the line in there should state:

 hosts: files dns

if the dns part is not there, add it. If the file is not there, forget
this email.

hans
Received on Thu Aug 23 03:12:14 2001